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Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346357#Comment_3463572013-01-05T12:34:57-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Hello fellow denizens,
I've been around these parts for a while now - you haven't killed me, I haven't killed you - so I'd like to welcome you to my world.
After getting permission from the ...
I've been around these parts for a while now - you haven't killed me, I haven't killed you - so I'd like to welcome you to my world.

After getting permission from the landlord, I'm pinning my shitty A4, hand-drawn poster to the pub wall and asking you all to join me, every week, for an ongoing discussion.

The thing that will form the core of that discussion will be the research I didn't put into my debut novel. Yes, yes, this is a form of shilling - apologies for those of you that don't like honesty - but it is a particularly Whitechaplian form.

My debut novel, Purefinder, is set in 1858 in London and over the course of the ongoing discussion themes will rear their ugly heads.

Until such a time, I want you to come up with the grossest, darkest, and most delectable ideas of what we'd do with a novel set in 1858 and the snippets that pop up here every Wednesday and Sunday. [Full disclosure, you can look at my blog to find out what I've hinted at but you won't find the whole truth - only here on Whitechapel will that eventually disgust you enough to look away from your screens. Of course, I can't give the whole book away so here too, there'll remain an element of the unseen.]

First of the lot is this beauty:

Have at it.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346373#Comment_3463732013-01-05T19:22:45-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00tapheadhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284
That guy seems to get around.
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Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346382#Comment_3463822013-01-06T00:54:37-06:002013-01-06T01:19:46-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Now I really wish I'd seen that in my research!
Sexytimes with Skeleton Guy.
ETA: Can we not let this descend into slashfic? [Unless...well, unless everyone on Whitechapel demands ...
Sexytimes with Skeleton Guy.

ETA: Can we not let this descend into slashfic? [Unless...well, unless everyone on Whitechapel demands it...including the landlord.]- Thanks]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346386#Comment_3463862013-01-06T03:45:28-06:002013-01-07T05:27:55-06:00texturehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472
1858, Egypt. The Stele of Ankh-ef-en Khonsu (the Stele of Revealing) is discovered at the Temple of Hatsheput.
From the wiki:
On the front Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu is as a priest of Montu can be ...
From the wiki:

On the front Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu is as a priest of Montu can be seen; he is presenting offerings to the falcon-headed god Re-Harakhty ("Re-Horus of the Two Horizons"), a synchronistic form of the gods Ra and Horus, who is seated on a throne. The symbol of the west, the place of the Dead, is seen behind Re-Harakhty. Above the figures is a depiction of Nut, the sky goddess who stretches from horizon to horizon. Directly beneath her is the Winged Solar Disk, Horus of Behdet.

The artefact goes on to become a central element in the Thelemic teachings of Aleister Crowley. In 1904, Crowley and his scarlet mistress, Rose, visit the Cairo Museum, and recognise the god depicted as Horus, who spoke to Rose through Aiwass. The catalogue number of the item, at the time, was 666.

Horus the Sky God, God of War and Hunting. Ra the Sun God, traveller in the Underworld, creator of the universe. Hatsheput, the empress, who helped build the wealth of Egypt by forging trade routes, sending out expeditionary forces.

I mention this merely in passing. In 1858 in London, Crowley was still unborn. Eliphas Levi, who Crowley claimed to be a reincarnation of, had visited London 5 years previously to perform a powerful magickal ritual. Occultism and spiritualism were gaining in popularity in London. People were listening to Mendelssohn. Darwin was about to unveil his theory of natural selection.

A fascinating time to set a story, Ben. I'll be reading the blog and these discussions with interest.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346394#Comment_3463942013-01-06T07:22:09-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Another addition: cheers, Bram.
I didn't put much Egyptology or big discoveries in my research as I was trying to focus on my Purefinder's life and what he and his lot would know but I read ...
I didn't put much Egyptology or big discoveries in my research as I was trying to focus on my Purefinder's life and what he and his lot would know but I read through a year's worth of newspapers stretching over that period.

There was much that happened in 1858 that seems to have happened 150 years before and again 150 years after - were I more inclined to write fantasy or even sci-fi, I could have focused on it as a nexus point in time.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346396#Comment_3463962013-01-06T08:05:28-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00texturehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472
I've spent a bit of time researching 1850s London this year too, so this is going to be fascinating for me.
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346399#Comment_3463992013-01-06T08:23:51-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Oddculthttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=214
That image isn't of the Stele of Revealing.
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346436#Comment_3464362013-01-07T05:27:44-06:002013-01-07T05:28:22-06:00texturehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472
Apologies, added that after a brief (and obviously misguided) image search. Now removed! If you have the correct image, post away, I've clearly been looking at the worng one!
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346438#Comment_3464382013-01-07T07:03:47-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Oddculthttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=214
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Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346439#Comment_3464392013-01-07T07:19:14-06:002013-01-07T07:20:37-06:00oldhathttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

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Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346441#Comment_3464412013-01-07T07:37:43-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00texturehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472
Magic! Literally. Cheers Oddcult and Oldhat!
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346445#Comment_3464452013-01-07T09:47:37-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00oldhathttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75
Oh! Probably should have explained what mine is. First one is the Hymn to Ninkasi, is a 19th century BC Sumerian beer recipe.
The other is a 17th century woodcut of an alehouse.
The other is a 17th century woodcut of an alehouse.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346457#Comment_3464572013-01-07T13:52:26-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Those are gorgeous, Robin.
I like the fact that a midget is bringing them beer: as I'm tired, I can't remember if I included a midget in Purefinder but now I really hope I did.
You all have ...
I like the fact that a midget is bringing them beer: as I'm tired, I can't remember if I included a midget in Purefinder but now I really hope I did.

You all have until Tuesday to tell me what the skeleton poker boys are up to. All responses welcome: tomorrow night [if I've internet in my new place] I'll let you know what I was going to do with it but didn't.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346461#Comment_3464612013-01-07T14:29:24-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00oldhathttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75
It may be a dwarf, but most likely a kid. :P
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346462#Comment_3464622013-01-07T14:47:15-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00James Cunninghamhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2925
Getting their poker playin' asses reamed by a skeleton, is what's happening there. You try reading its expression or figuring out its tells.
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346552#Comment_3465522013-01-09T03:41:39-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
So I don't have internet in my new flat but that gave James time to vet surprisingly close to my original, nefarious plans.
I'll update when I get to a wifi spot later and I'm not typing on my ...
I'll update when I get to a wifi spot later and I'm not typing on my phone.

Victorian Values.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346585#Comment_3465852013-01-09T13:30:49-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Damn you Oddcult!
That top image was one of my future posts. Ah well.
So: the previous image was originally intended to begin as a poker game they saw in a window where the skeleton was veiled ...
That top image was one of my future posts. Ah well.

So: the previous image was originally intended to begin as a poker game they saw in a window where the skeleton was veiled but the veil slipped and the men soon began to covet the skeletons cards & bones, to rip off its arms, and to fuck its ribs. Covetous.

Seeing as how Oddcult got the jump on me: take that image, give me gore & plenty.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346761#Comment_3467612013-01-13T06:50:26-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Well, lab rats, with no response I'll just have to shove it down your throats.
She was to be a walking, shambling vision of just what had happened to my main character's wife after death. My ...
She was to be a walking, shambling vision of just what had happened to my main character's wife after death. My Purefinder would have seen her coming toward him in a moment of terror but I thought it too hammer horror to include in the end draft.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346762#Comment_3467622013-01-13T06:51:34-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
New research for you: tell me what this is and what I should have done with it -
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Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346801#Comment_3468012013-01-14T06:07:08-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00texturehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472
Is this a plate from Darwin's Origin of Species? That's my best guess without recourse to Google. I reckon a good use of them all would be some kind of stew...
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346803#Comment_3468032013-01-14T07:00:22-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Steve Toasehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253
I reckon you're right. A picture menu for illiterate members of the Gluttons Club
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346807#Comment_3468072013-01-14T08:37:14-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Hah - brilliant!
Wrong, but brilliant. =P /\__/\
Keep those guesses, messes, story-making-presses a-coming.
Wrong, but brilliant. =P /\__/\

And I'd intended it to be one of a collection of rare finds that my main character had even though you wouldn't expect someone of his class to have. Unfortunately, I realized that...yeah, he wouldn't have.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346910#Comment_3469102013-01-16T11:14:11-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Next in line time:
What up with that face?

What up with that face?]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346915#Comment_3469152013-01-16T12:21:52-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00tapheadhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284
That face is actually just a decoy, the actual head is the hat.
is the hat.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346932#Comment_3469322013-01-16T20:20:03-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Fishellehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8854
That photograph reminds me a lot of the work of Ed Bateman, who teaches photography and computer classes at my university. He photoshops in robots, machines, or devices meant to communicate with the ...
Anyway, that's clearly not damage to the photograph, but rather some sort of electric energy expelling from her face. Maybe there's an antenna under the hat.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346937#Comment_3469372013-01-16T23:35:11-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Steve Toasehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253
She's 282 feet tall and those are clouds
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346945#Comment_3469452013-01-17T04:20:54-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00texturehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472
Sorry, sorry, I was chopping out rails and I didn't realise this was your photo.
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346947#Comment_3469472013-01-17T04:25:06-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Steve Toasehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253
Is that why it says High Street, texture?
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346953#Comment_3469532013-01-17T07:19:57-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00texturehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472
You got me...
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=346960#Comment_3469602013-01-17T08:40:11-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Jessops took this photo while music from HMV played in the background.
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347114#Comment_3471142013-01-20T09:56:28-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
"Right, my lovelies - an explanation, is it?" [In the best cod-Swanzeeeee you can do.]
Initially I had plans for my protagonist's wife to feature more in the book and, in those sections, ...
Initially I had plans for my protagonist's wife to feature more in the book and, in those sections, for her to have a penchant for wearing traditional Welsh garb. The hat here has to be a pisstake [even though traditional garb is pretty close] so I'd intended for one of the scenes that bonded them together was a playful hat swapping and clothes trying in a clothes/tailoring shop that they knew they couldn't afford. They would have pretended to be well off on entering, only to try several things on and pose for each other then tell the clerk that it wasn't quite right and exuent.

Unfortunately, this bit proved superfluous to the action of the book and distracted too much from the emotional currents. Ah well - we cut our lovies.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347116#Comment_3471162013-01-20T10:08:56-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
This girl, that look, your jaw.
Let it drop onto the keyboard and give me your fantasies. [Flash-slashfic welcome for this one and the monkey one.]
This girl, that look, your jaw.

Let it drop onto the keyboard and give me your fantasies. [Flash-slashfic welcome for this one and the monkey one.]]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347140#Comment_3471402013-01-21T05:45:34-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00texturehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472
It's the head of Anne Hathaway on the body of Macho Man Randy Savage!
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347141#Comment_3471412013-01-21T06:00:57-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Steve Toasehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10253
Early Ramones fan.
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347145#Comment_3471452013-01-21T08:32:47-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
I may love you both...
but not as much as she loves opium.
but not as much as she loves opium.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347287#Comment_3472872013-01-24T10:27:20-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
It is so freakin easy to fall behind - 'Bi-weekly' I said, 'Every Wednesday and Sunday' I said. Pah - one night of preparation for one job and this one gets a shot to the gut. Pah.
OK, well, our ...
OK, well, our Fashionable Beauty might well have been Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis, an opera singer and I'd originally intended a large opera-flecked parallel strain of narrative that saw a fashionable beauty rise through the singer ranks to starlet status. This was to emphasize how certain class ideals put a decadent culture ahead of others for the sake of tradition but...it would have been too much for such a beautifully simple book. It would have made the whole narrative too Joycean and too distracting. Ho hum, we cut our loves.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347288#Comment_3472882013-01-24T10:32:50-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Ballyhoo?
Ballyhoo?]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347413#Comment_3474132013-01-27T08:56:14-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
That last pic is from Sketches in London, by James Grant, London, published in 1850.
An excellent scene, I think: depicting a sometimes typical invasion of the stage but it's the details that ...
Sketches in London, by James Grant, London, published in 1850.

An excellent scene, I think: depicting a sometimes typical invasion of the stage but it's the details that count - look at where the audience's hands are.

As I've said before, I'd considered a parallel storyline in an opera but I'd also considered having my two troupe to the theatre - unfortunately, I thought it'd make it too melodramatic.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347414#Comment_3474142013-01-27T09:00:54-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
If you've not seen it over on my blog, here's some good stuff for ya:
“For Children Three Years Old,” from Lessons for Children by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Philadelphia, 1818: There was a ...
my blog, here's some good stuff for ya:

“For Children Three Years Old,” from Lessons for Children by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Philadelphia, 1818: There was a naughty boy; I do not know what his name was, but it was not Charles, nor George, nor Arthur, for those are all very pretty names: but there was a robin came in at his window one very cold morning — shiver — shiver; and its poor little heart was almost frozen to death. And he would not give it the least crumb of bread in the world, but pulled it about by the tail and hurt it sadly, and it died. Now a little while after, the naughty boy’s papa and mamma went away and left him, and then he could get no victuals at all, for you know he could not take care of himself. So he went about to every body — Pray give me something to eat, I am very hungry. And every body said, No, we shall give you none, for we do not love cruel, naughty boys. So he went about from one place to another, till at last he got into a thick wood of trees; for he did not know how to find his way any where; and then it grew dark night. So he sat down and cried sadly; and he could not get out of the wood; and I believe the bears came and ate him up in the wood, for I never heard any thing about him afterwards.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347715#Comment_3477152013-02-01T09:50:05-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Wait, what? Where did the last 5 days go?
Ok - well, that there AmeriCAN story was a possible a tale my antagonist would tell but, it not fitting with character, didn't.
Ok - well, that there AmeriCAN story was a possible a tale my antagonist would tell but, it not fitting with character, didn't.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347716#Comment_3477162013-02-01T09:51:41-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
On Wednesday, I did actually post on time...but on my blog so here it is for y'all:
Foreground the chaos.
Let the shadow of peace glimmer in the end, at the back – in the hidden.
Forwhy?

Foreground the chaos.Let the shadow of peace glimmer in the end, at the back – in the hidden.

Forwhy?]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347797#Comment_3477972013-02-03T12:25:50-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Keep keep, keep thee on.
That torrent was to be one moment of many in a look at the nature of photography and its counterpart, illustration.
That torrent was to be one moment of many in a look at the nature of photography and its counterpart, illustration.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347799#Comment_3477992013-02-03T12:30:48-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Flogging horses, I strive on:
Seen one o these before?

Seen one o these before?]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347944#Comment_3479442013-02-06T14:51:03-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
WELL you shoulda cos now I'm all shouty and drunk:
This is a lover's note, foo.
there's stuff behind it but I'll save y except to say, go here for more. [Via Letters of Note.]
This is a lover's note, foo.

there's stuff behind it but I'll save y except to say, go here for more. [Via Letters of Note.]]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=347945#Comment_3479452013-02-06T14:52:10-06:002013-02-07T07:59:36-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Seeing as how I don't want to post several images this time, go here and let me know what you think here on Whitechapel.
[No, that syntax is not confusing.]
{ETA: I may have been drunk and lazy ...
here and let me know what you think here on Whitechapel.

[No, that syntax is not confusing.]

{ETA: I may have been drunk and lazy last night - apologies for the lack of proper content. Next time, Gadget. Next time.}]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348164#Comment_3481642013-02-10T08:41:32-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
So the detail from that last post was actually something that got included in the first draft - fortunately, life provided me with a much larger, much more real and contemporary figure for ...
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348165#Comment_3481652013-02-10T08:56:46-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Dandy bestiality?
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Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348188#Comment_3481882013-02-10T17:12:40-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Fishellehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8854
That cat is so obviously stuffed.
It reminds me of a list I saw on one of those websites that do nothing but list things, with the most surreal photographs taken by google trucks for the street view ...
It reminds me of a list I saw on one of those websites that do nothing but list things, with the most surreal photographs taken by google trucks for the street view on google maps. One of them had a lion outside a convenience store. I glanced at a couple of comments to find that people in the neighborhood could explain that one. The store just has a stuffed lion and likes to put it up from time to time to freak people out a bit.So I'm thinking that's just a stuffed toy the girl likes to have with her all the time, like my 4 year old niece and her stuffed horse named Pink. It's just a bit bigger than the usual toy.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348220#Comment_3482202013-02-11T09:23:06-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
What gave it away, THE CRAZY EYES?
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348221#Comment_3482212013-02-11T09:33:55-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00tapheadhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284
Not just the cat, the ladies too. That man is an artist.
artist.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348223#Comment_3482232013-02-11T09:46:52-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Lady stuffing?
"Good morning, sir. I'd like a pound of your finest lady stuffing."
"I'll give your lady a stuffing."
"Good morning, sir. I'd like a pound of your finest lady stuffing.""I'll give your lady a stuffing."]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348584#Comment_3485842013-02-17T09:47:16-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Well, lady stuffing aside - that was going to be the hallucination of a man walking his leopard with plenty of questions about whether or not it is actually a hallucination.
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348585#Comment_3485852013-02-17T09:58:32-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Get some malibu, sit back, drink.
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Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348917#Comment_3489172013-02-24T11:14:24-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
That one was intended to be a fever dream too. London drying to desert due to my protagonist's thirst - all a bit too much; there are fever dreams and there are over-used metaphors. So that one got ...
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=348919#Comment_3489192013-02-24T11:24:58-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Fancy a dance? With a robot?
Yeah, the 19th Century French did too.

Yeah, the 19th Century French did too.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349069#Comment_3490692013-02-26T04:13:43-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Scrymgeourhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4141
aren't those the sex dolls who accompany the Golly in LOEG?
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349133#Comment_3491332013-02-27T01:28:25-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Interestingly, they're not [under my intention] where I found them but they're very close.
This piece is from Un autre monde (another world), written and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Grandville in ...
This piece is from Un autre monde (another world), written and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Grandville in 1844 [and I found them at archive.org] whereas the figure of the Golliwog only really came around in the late 19th century - it's possible Moore cribbed these both and threw them together.

It's been roughly 3 years since I read The Black Dossier. Thanks for highlighting the connection, good Scrymgeour.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349469#Comment_3494692013-03-03T16:13:18-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Scrymgeourhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4141
I think he did.
My main knowledge of the Golly comes from the massive one that used to adorn a factory in my home town
My main knowledge of the Golly comes from the massive one that used to adorn a factory in my home town]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349803#Comment_3498032013-03-10T14:29:42-05:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Busy Ben has meant a lull in posts here but a continuation over at the blog so I'll give what they were to be used for then throw a few more pics at you.
Those dolls were to be part of a ...
Those dolls were to be part of a beauuuuutiful stage show that my protagonist was forced to go to that then followed him out onto the streets but it all got a bit ridiculous and an entourage woulda spoiled the Dantean two wanderers feel. So there. Nuh.

;)]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=349804#Comment_3498042013-03-10T14:31:14-05:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=350634#Comment_3506342013-03-28T05:06:25-05:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Jebus what a fortnight.
Startups are time-heavy. Excuse the breaks, they may will happen.
Those three were to be some of the books my main boy had read - I was hoping he'd be a little smarter ...
Startups are time-heavy. Excuse the breaks, they may will happen.

Those three were to be some of the books my main boy had read - I was hoping he'd be a little smarter than your average working-class immigrant but then I realized that no, there's no need to make him likable to intellectuals. It's their job to engage with the character.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=353808#Comment_3538082013-06-13T13:24:44-05:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
So my cover has now been through 6 iterations and I'm now very very happy with what we have.
The first looked like this:
Not great, let's be honest.
So I asked the publisher's designer to do ...
The first looked like this:Not great, let's be honest.

So I asked the publisher's designer to do a second.Not much better.

So I thought, 'Fuck it. I'll get a different designer.'I was blown away - my publisher have been too.But this is only the third design... :)]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=358466#Comment_3584662013-09-21T10:32:26-05:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
It's been a hell of a while since I updated this but this weekend I've got the news that you can now pre-order Purefinder!
Here's the Amazon page.
As you can imagine, I'm pretty excited.
If ...
Purefinder!

Brain is faltering.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=360713#Comment_3607132013-12-03T07:08:05-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
So if you're in London on December 15th, and haven't got my emails in the last two days, i'm having a Purefinder book launch!
Details are:
The Old Bell Tavern, Fleet Street.
3p.m.
Free ...
Purefinder book launch!

Me for a bit, 200 year old drinking songs, books for sale and then more signings and Christmassings.Then, of course, booze and decrepitude for me as I fall into a I've-been-bought-too-many-wonderful-drinks coma.

Hope you can make it, Whitechapel.]]>
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=361060#Comment_3610602013-12-16T10:04:38-06:002015-03-03T16:51:44-06:00texturehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472
Bought. Congratulations on publishing, Ben :)
Purefinder - finding purity in filthhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10954&Focus=361099#Comment_3610992013-12-17T09:39:49-06:002013-12-17T09:40:26-06:00Ben Gwalchmaihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3030
Thanks, man!
Let me know what you think.
[ETA: even if you think it a bit shit. All opinions welcome.]
Let me know what you think.